Test 2 Flashcards
(109 cards)
1
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People were/are made in the image of God
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Genesis 9:6
2
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Moses mentions the six days of creation
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Exodus 20:11
3
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Praising God for making heaven and earth
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2 Kings 19:15
4
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God’s hands made the sea and dry lands
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Psalm 95:5
5
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Remember the creator as a child
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Ecclesiastes 12:1
6
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Sense God created all things He sustains us
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Isaiah 40:28-31
7
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God’s creation failed Him and He regretted making them
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Genesis 6:7
8
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Induction, rather than deduction, is the way of truth
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Francis Bacon
9
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But induction can’t actually prove anything for sure
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David Hume
10
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We don’t have to prove things absolutely, we just mathematically establish that certain things are highly probable
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Moritz Schlick
11
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All mathematical proofs are incomplete, and can’t ultimately prove anything
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Kurt Godel
12
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We don’t have to prove things true. It is enough to prove certain things false
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Karl Popper
13
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Scientific theories last a long time and are viewed as useful even when they are proven false
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Imre Lakatos
14
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Then science then is nothing more than a religion
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Paul Feyerabend
15
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How could the parallel roads be formed?
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By great floods, continents moving, or a glacial lakes
16
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Rocks worn by glaciers are…
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Polished smooth but with scratches
17
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Which fact does NOT contradict the ocean explanation?
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The terraces exists in several different valleys
18
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What was “the use of this great engine” of glacier activity?
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It formed soil
19
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Which statement best describes Darwin’s theory about the parallel roads at Glen Roy?
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He thought they were ocean beaches, but he was wrong
20
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A legendary Scottish warrior that made the Glen Roy roads into hunting roads?
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Finn McCool
21
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Which best describes the nature of the parallel roads at Glen Roy?
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They look man made, but they are naturally caused
22
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What features of the parallel roads seen on Darwin’s map best suggests they are natural, not man made?
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They follow the terrain all the way around this valley and other valleys nearby.
23
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Why did Darwin think Glen Roy roads were made by the ocean?
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The valley is open on one end, with a river running down to the sea.
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Louis Agassiz did what?
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Discovered that a glacier had blocked the end of the valley, forming a lake.
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A uniformitarianist assumes that
the laws and processes of Earth have never changed
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Who wrote "Natural Theology"?
William Paley
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Who wrote Origin of Species?
Charles Darwin
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What part of the human body did Darwin find hard to explain?
Eyes
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When would creationists assume the ice age ended?
4,000 years ago
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What is relativity?
Object moving very fast (not relativism)
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What is quantum mechanics?
Objects that are very small
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Who created the Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein
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What is the Theory of Relativity
the speed of light is the same but is not relative
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What does quantized mean?
Comes in smallest steps or pieces
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Lake Agassiz was located in?
Canada
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One of these floods had nothing to do with glaciers. Which one?
Lake Bonneville
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The conditions for an ice age are
high precipitation and low temperatures
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Ellensburg is
A town in Washington state
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What kinds of triangles with this triangulation method work for?
Only for right triangles (one angel equal to 90 degrees)
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One of the following statements is NOT a lesson taught in this case study. Which statement does NOT belong?
If you know the distance to several distant objects, you can determine their directions.
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"Particles" of light are called what?
Photons
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Who was the most famous skeptic of the word non-casual interpretation of quantum mechanics? He was "interviewed" in the Science News special issue on quantum mechanics.
Einstein
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`God was in the very beginning
John 1:1
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God that made the world and everything in it and doesn't live in temples made by man
Acts 17:24
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We can see God in creation so there is not excuse for us not to believe in Him
Romans 1:20
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God is the faithful creator and we should trust Him
1 Peter 4:19
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God is worthy and by His will all things exists
Revelation 4:11
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Greek astronomer summarized 700 years of science and philosophy about the heavens; thought the earth was a the center not the sun
Cladius Ptolemy
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Founder of modern astronomy and said the sun is in the center
Nicholas Copernicus
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Three laws of motion and gravity; discover how planets move around each other and that they go around the sun
Issac Newton
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Explained how scientific truth changes through time
Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions)
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Logical Positivism: the belief that the only philosophical problems worth solving are ones that can be explained logically
The Vienna Circle
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Uses inductive reasoning
The Vienna Circle
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Scientific truth is not always objective truth; it is often colored by personal bias
Stephen J. Gould
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This work lead to people believing that there was a rational reason for everything in the universe
Clockwork Universe (Isaac Newton)
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This destroyed many previous certainties; proved conclusively that physical characteristics like length, mass, and time are relative to the velocity or gravity of where they are being measured
Relativity (Albert Einstein)
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Discovered quantum mechanics including describing how black bodies that absorb light eventually relate radiation
Max Planck
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Described structure of the atom, how the atom absorbs and emits quanta of energy
Niels Bohr
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Found that it is impossible to know the position and the momentum of an electron within the atom
The Uncertainty Principle (Werner Heisenberg)
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The universe is unstable and expanding therefore there may be a limit to what astronomers can learn about the physical universe
Edwin Hubble (the edge of space)
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The planck boundary is after the Big Bang until we can't see time beyond that point
Max Planc (the edge of time)
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After the Big Bang the universe expanded really fast; tried to solve the problem how everything could come form nothing and by doing that created the possibility for multiple universes
Alan Gruth (multiple universe)
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Discovered irreducible complexity
Michael Behe (Darwin's Black Box)
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Believed that the complex cells were the result of aliens
Francis Crick (directed panaspersia)
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Temporal (changing scientific truth), Logical (induction, empiricism), Cultural (racism, relativism), Spacial (Can't see past Hubbles radius or before the Big Bang), Empirical (evidence of design)
5 limitations of science
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What are the three ultimate questions
Where did I come from? What is my purpose in life? What will happen when I die?
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What are the three pathways to truth
Religion, philosophy, and science
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Arrange by increasing weight left to right then top to bottom, elements in the same column, have similar properties
Periodic Table
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Chemical that triggers or speeds up other chemical reactions, is not used up
Catalyst
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Different forms of same atoms like O2 and O3 or diamond and graphite
Allotrope
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Possible causes of the little ice age
cyclical lows in solar radiation, changes in ocean circulation, low sunspot activity, volcanic activity
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Science is constantly changing
Temporal Limitations
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Science needs to be inductive but ca't be proved absolutely
Logical Limitation
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Scientist are influence in a certain way by language and environment
Cultural Limitation
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There are things that we can't see or know
Spacial Limitation
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We can have all the same evidence but come up with different conclusions
Empirical Limitation
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Many people are traveling to Idaho to view the eclipse because the weather there is typically clear in august
Climate
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Greenville has been in drought conditions since April and we are now 25 inches of rain below normal for the year
Weather
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Warmer temperatures could melt the ice caps raising sea levels by 20ft
Climate
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Who does official daily forecast
National Weather Service
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Who does daily climate forecast
Climate Prediction Center
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How long does recorded history go back
4-5 thousand years
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Is the speed of light relative
No
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Is time relative
Yes
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Here are some examples/observations
induction
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Here is a rule, apply it
deduction
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Our performed mindset
paradigm
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Uses probabilities rather than absolutes
Empiricism
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Mathematics is the solution to scientific truth
Positivism
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A language created with no reference to supernatural
Linguistics
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Has not frozen since 1814 has more salt water and has been narrowed so that it flows faster
Frozen Thames River
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Measured in gigaton or carbon per year
Greenhouse Gases
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0 Degrees Longitude and 51 Degrees North Latitude is located where?
Greenwich, England
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Other common name of the North Star
Polaris
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The name of the constellation just above the northern horizon in Sydney, Australia at 10:00 pm on New Years Day, 2011
Lynx
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What is the difference between Julian Date 2447094 and Julian Date 2447094.5?
Half a day, or 12 hours
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Many stars regularly vary in brightness. Suppose a star cycles from magnitude 5 at the start of a month to magnitude 8 at the end. What do observers of this star see?
For part of the month the star is visible to the naked eye, and for part of the month it is not
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Should you report a meteor sighting to the IAU Central Bureau?
Meteors are technically not astronomical events and so should not be reported
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Light years measure what?
Distance
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From a creation perspective, Supernova 1987A is important because
It appears to have happened before creation
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The idea that God created the light from SN1987A already on its way to the earth bothers some creationists. They are bothered because
God created light from an explosion that never happened- this seems illogical
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The fact that SN1987A has a ring is important because
It allows us to independently determine the distance
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A perfectly running internal combustion engine will produce only
H20 and CO2
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What element abundant in air is not needed for combustion and produces harmful byproducts?
Nitrogen
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What changes oxygen into ozone?
Sunlight
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The catalyst in a catalytic converter does what?
Promotes chemical reaction without being used up itself
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The "year without a summer" of 1816 is connected with what possible cause?
A volcano the previous year
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What was the largest widespread negative impact of the Little Ice Age cooling?
Famine due to crop failure
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How much cooler were average temperatures during the Little Ice Age?
2-3 degrees Celsius
